Quotes about sweets
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“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

“Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Women, Truth, Problem

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) French writer

Autumn, Beauty

“There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.”

Ian McEwan Saturday

Source: Saturday

Life, Hunger, Happiness

“Thank you… for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”

Richard Matheson book What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

Love, Life, Soul, For Him

“She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary – and a sweet lover who would swing dance with her in the evenings and cook pasta and read poetry aloud.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: Violet & Claire

Flowers, Lovers, Reading, Dance

“Children of the future Age
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

A Little Girl Lost, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

Love, Children, Age, Time

“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.”

Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer

Way, Light

“It was like a song, one of those sweet, wrenching songs that makes the hair on your arms stand up. That makes you want to throw yourself on the floor and just bawl. Or fall backward and surrender to the music utterly.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

Music

“Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.”

Borís Pasternak (1890–1960) Russian writer

LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)

Tear, Night

“Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”

Sherwood Anderson book Winesburg, Ohio

"Paper Pills"
Source: Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Context: On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all of its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

“Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin.
I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

Way

“I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

Love, Girl

“All love is sweet, given or received…”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Love

“The sound was pure and sweet as water, bright as lemons.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Water

“I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.”

Francine Pascal Fearless

Source: Fearless

“Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

Home, Drink, Heart

“But Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’t let me die!”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Dreams

“It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

Joanne Harris book Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

Happiness, Heart, Happy

“I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable."

"How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

Youth, Dreams, Dead

“You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead as a Doornail

Source: Dead as a Doornail

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Patience

“Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Sadness, Beauty, Heart

“But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Girl

“… Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

“The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;—on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!”

Matthew Arnold Dover Beach

St. 1
Dover Beach (1867)
Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

Light, Sea, Night

“His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?"
"If you like."
"Oh," he said, "I like.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Black Dawn

Smile, Kiss, Parting

“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

World, Way

“For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough.”

Annette Curtis Klause Blood and Chocolate

Source: Blood and Chocolate

Life, Kiss

“Because your eyes are slant and slow,
Because your hair is sweet to touch,
My heart is high again; but oh,
I doubt if this will get me much.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

Heart

“We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad. You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day, and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

Source: Thieves' Paradise

“How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Love, Heart

“I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: Collected Stories

Love, People

“I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living”

John Fante book Full of Life

Source: Full of Life

Men, Beauty, Tear, Loneliness

“Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.”

Jon Ronson (1967) British journalist, documentary filmmaker, radio presenter and nonfiction author

Life, Alcohol

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”

Geoffrey Wolff (1937) American writer

Love, Learning

“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: NOS4A2

Books, History, Time

“I'm not saying it because I'm sweet. I'm saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Love, Imagination

“You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path - ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Peace

“It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Perfection

“Revenge is sweet and not fattening.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

Revenge

“I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Memory, Past

“Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Life, Way

“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Satori in Paris (1966)
Source: Satori in Paris & Pic

Love, Time

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Jonathan Harker
Source: Dracula (1897)

Suffering, Heart, Night

“One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity”

Roddy Doyle Paula Spencer

Source: Paula Spencer

Time

“She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.”

Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter

Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Women, Beauty, Girl

“I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

Fashion

“At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Personality

“I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines”

Joanne Harris book Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

Dreams

“The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.”

Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher

Source: The Poetics of Reverie

Love, Soul

“Turn off the light," she says as she walks away, creating a smallthat smells sweet and chemical. It makes me sad because it's the smell she makes when she's leaving.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Sadness, Light

“I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese

Life, Sadness, Tear

“I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Hope

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Love, Books, Learning

“Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Women

“Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

Books, World

“Shigure Sohma: Tohru's very cute in a sweet sort of way.

Hatori Sohma: For some reason when you say that it reeks of something illegal.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Way

“Beseeching is a true, gracious, lasting will of the soul, oned and fastened into the will of our Lord by the sweet inward work of the Holy Ghost.”

Julian of Norwich book Revelations of Divine Love

The Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 41
Source: Revelations of Divine Love

Soul

“The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.”

Bertrice Small (1937–2015) American writer

Source: Lost Love Found

“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Dreams

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.

Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm

The final lines are barely audible.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen, Rue's song, p. 235
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

Love, Dreams, Forgetting

“I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.”

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter

Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317
Letters and essays
Context: When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

Love, Learning, Heart

“Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine,
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

"A Case of You" from Blue
Songs
Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

Drink, Wine

“I am going to love you now, slow and sweet, but when you come, I'm going to f*** you the way I need to. The way I've been dreaming about since the moment I saw you.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: The Dark Highlander

Love, Dreams, Way

“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

Antonio Machado (1875–1939) Spanish poet

Error, Failure, Bee, Heart

“Every night, and every morn,
Some to misery are born.
Every morn, and every night,
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to endless night.”

William Blake book Songs of Experience

Source: Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805), Auguries of Innocence, Line 123
Source: Songs of Experience

Night

“And all the winds go sighing,
For sweet things dying”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

“i usedta live in the world
really be in the world
free & sweet talkin
good mornin & thank-you & nice day
uh huh
i cant now
i cant be nice to nobody
nice is such a rip-off
regular beauty & a smile in the street
is just a set-up”

Ntozake Shange for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Source: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

World, Smile, Beauty

“Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets,. Hear it? It's a love song.

For whom?

You are loved.”

David Foster Wallace book Girl with Curious Hair

Source: Girl with Curious Hair

Love, Silence

“It’s sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

Understanding

“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

Coffee

“He made it so hard not to love him. When he was sweet like this, I remembered why I did. Used to love him, I mean. I remembered everything.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Love

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)

War, Dogs, Country

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”

Stephen King book The Eyes of the Dragon

Source: The Eyes of the Dragon

Friendship, World, Feeling, Flowers